Archive of Mathematical Practices
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      Accounting

      A prominent context of mathematical practices. The collection comprises of merchant and revenue accounts.

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      Architecture

      Measuring and calculation are essential part of planning and construction. This collection includes texts on how to construct temples, houses and so on.

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      Music Instrument Making

      Here we explore musical instrument making as an artisanal and social practice, focusing on the practitioners involved in making, playing, maintaining, and repairing instruments.

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      Medicine

      Precision and proportion of various active components are of central importance in medicinal preparation. This collection comprise of medical texts pertaining to different schools, such as Ayurveda and Siddha.

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      Teaching

      Teaching and learning is integral to production and reproduction of mathematical practices. This is the collection of materials which we associate directly to teaching and learning.

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        Encuvati

        Tamil and Malayalam number tables which are products of learning at Tinnai Schools.

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      Sculpting

      Under our sculpture collection, we bring together both texts on sculpting and documentation of practice, including conversations with practitioners.

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      Ship Building

      This collection include textual records on traditional ship design, along with contemporary documentation of the building process.

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      Astral Sciences

      Astronomy and Astrology have always demanded precise computations of planetary positions. This collection predominantly have astrological texts and alamancs.

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      Measuring

      Collection of measuring instruments from Museums and Households as well as records of practices and conversations pertaining to measures, standardisation and measuring. Measuring is arguably among the most pervasive of mathematical practices. What are the different roles it play in our social lives?

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      Conversations and discussions about historical records and inscriptions with people from the regions to which these records relate. They take place in the communities’ own locales.

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      Details of meetings and workshops with practitioners at their workplace and otherwise to learn from the practice.

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      List of Research publications and edited volumes based on our work on questions of mathematical practices and Society.

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      This is a list of presentation on our works on the archive and social history of mathematical practices given to various audiences around the world.

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      Standardisation @ Madras

      Story of standardization in Madras presidency

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      Tinnai School

      Making of a Measuring Public

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      Temple as an Archive

      Evidences of Agrarian Unrest in Medieval South India

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      Folding

      Folding Quantity and Quality of Land into a Single Index

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  • Water Canal Measurement
    Water Canal Measurement
    Type: Commensuration Work
    2021-10-03
  • Public Interaction at Achalpuram Temple
    Public Interaction at Achalpuram Temple
    Type: Site, Environment
    2022-04-23
  • Measuring Rod Inscription
    Measuring Rod Inscription
    Images from fieldwork documenting the inscription of a standard measuring rod at Seeyamangalam Temple. The inscription is believed to have been commissioned on the order of ..., and it records a measurement in units of length.
    Type: Epigraphy Work
    2021-10-03
  • Public Interaction at Seeyamangalam
    Public Interaction at Seeyamangalam
    Type: Field Interaction
    2021-10-03
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